New Year in Sri Aurobindo Ashram

JANUARY 1 - NEW YEAR'S EVE




Starting in the year 1927, the Sri Aurobindo ashram began the
first New Year’s Celebration. On this eve of the New Year day, the sadhaks
assembled in the Ashram around  midnight and as soon as the clock struck
midnight The Mother welcomed the new year with music on her organ. This was
followed by Pranams in the stillness of the
night and The Mother blessed

Christmas Messages by the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

                                                                     


                                                                         






                                           
 (Christmas was
designated by the Mother as the festival of 

the return of the Light .)

Mother's Darshan Video by Filmmaker Flame Schon

Video Credit : This Video was shot on 24 April, 1973,  by filmmaker Ms. FlameSchon (Diane Rochlin). She had lived in Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry and Auroville from November 1970 to April 1974.

                            *                              *                            Reminiscences



 (The
crack in the photo is perfect; we can know that it is very old (1970). It was shot

Darshan Days in Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Video Credit : This Video
was shot by filmmaker
Ms. Flame Schon (Diane
Rochlin). She had lived
in Sri Aurobindo Ashram,
Pondicherry and Auroville
from November 1970 to April
1974.
I have her permission to share
this Video with all of you.*                                             *













IMPORTANT DATES IN THE ASHRAM



Shortly

The Fairy-Tale of the Earth: ‘Savitri’ - by Bhaga

Sixty-three years ago
today, on December 9, 1950, Sri Aurobindo’s body was put into the  white
marble Samadhi that had been built for this purpose in the central courtyard of
the Ashram after his passing away on the 5th.

On the longer sides of the
Samadhi was engraved, in English on one side, in French on the other side, the
Prayer written and signed by the Mother:

“TO THEE WHO HAST

Sri Aurobindo, Yogi Gopi Krishna and Kundalini

Kundalini – the evolutionary energy in man is the Autobiography of Pandit Gopi Krishna. It was first published in 1967. Later it was renamed Living with Kundalini and is one of the many books that Gopi Krishna wrote about his experience with the Kundalini energy and how it transformed his life. Download the ebook here:


Kundalini – the evolutionary energy in man by Gopi Krishna







 Gopi

December 5, 1950 : Sri Aurobindo left his body

After Sri Aurobindo
withdrew from his body, the Mother may be said to have become physically even
more Aurobindonian than before. Once, when some recent photographs of her were
under scrutiny, she told us that her very face and particularly the manner in
which she smiled were becoming like Sri Aurobindo's. Before his passing, there
were two bodies to

"24 November 1926: Sri Aurobindo And Lord Krishna" by Bhaga

             


There are important aspects of the One Divine Being that we humans have since ever been perceiving as separate entities and giving names to, different ones in our different cultures. ‘Krishna’ is one of those major Aspects, as perceived and named in the Indian spiritual tradition.

I have mentioned this most wonderful Aspect of the Divine already several times on this blog, but

Agitation Against Sri Aurobindo Ashram

27 December, 1967

(Regarding the violent agitation in South India against the imposition
of Hindi, the language of the North, as the official language. This is the same
agitation that had in 1965 led to an attack against the Ashram in which
disciples had been injured and buildings burned down. At the time the
Pondicherry lieutenant governor had not intervened to stop the rioters from

Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda and Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

                                  Swami Vivekananda's Original Chicago Speech in 1893

                                                   *               *               *         

Not many are aware of the part played by Swami
Vivekananda in the life and work of Sri Aurobindo. In fact, none at all knew of
it till Sri Aurobindo himself revealed this part and its significance in a

How to do Sri Aurobindo's Yoga ?

  One day I asked Mother : I have been doing the yoga for many
years

but I am not absolutely certain how to do the yoga of Sri
Aurobindo.

I read all the books and try to do the yoga but I am not certain
how far

I have progressed”. I asked the Mother to help me.

“You are doing it all wrong”, She said.

I said : What shall I do ?”

She said : “I will do the yoga for you”.

I was

Sri Aurobindo's Gayatri Mantra

                                                                           
                                                                   




Sri
Aurobindo’s Gayatri Mantra



Sri Aurobindo’s Gayatri Mantra : Om Tat Savitur Varam Rupam,
Jyoti Parasya Dhimahi Yannah Satyena Dipayet.   [Tat = That, Savitur = Sun-god who is the
Creator, Varam = most auspicious, Rupam = form,

Hostile Forces and the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

December 23, 1961

‘All things are attracted to the Divine. Are the hostile forces
also attracted to the Divine?'

You know, I can say one thing about this.... There's a type of
woman I have met more or less periodically throughout my life. These beings are
under the influence, or are incarnations of, or in any case are responsive to
forces which Theon called 'passive' - not exactly feminine

Goddess Kali and the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

(The day before Kali Puja (the ritual festival devotedeach year in India to the goddess Kali), the warrior aspect of the universal Mother)                                    

She has already been
here for two days and ... Oh, yesterday especially,
 she was so ... in such a mood! - like a
warrior. I said to her, 'But why not change them through ... through an excess
of love?'

So then she

Apprentice Disciples of Sri Aurobindo

                    Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi and the Mother



All the government members (the central
government - I don't mean the whole country, but the center), all the
government members are ... (what should I say?) I might almost say
"apprentice disciples of Sri Aurobindo," with a great goodwill to serve.

And everywhere, everywhere in the world, the
signs of a CONSCIOUS

Sri Aurobindo on Avatars

The Avatar comes as the manifestation of the divine nature in
the human nature, the apocalypse of its Christhood, Krishnahood, Buddhahood, in
order that the human nature may by moulding its principle, thought, feeling,
action, being on the lines of that Christhood, Krishnahood, Buddhahood
transfigure itself into the divine. The law, the Dharma which the Avatar
establishes is given for that

President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee visits Sri Aurobindo Ashram

 (In the above photo from the right are:1st Shri N Rangaswamy, Chief Minister of Pondicherry,2nd Honourable President Shri Pranab Mukharjee, 3rd Shri Manoj Das Gupta, Managing Trustee, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicehrry,4th Shri V. Narayanasamy,Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Prime Minister's Office and 5th Shri Manoj Das.)












The President of

The Hour Of The Unexpected : Prof. Manoj Das

“The
20th century is only the 19th speaking with a slight American accent,” was a
remark attributed to Philip Guedalla. Now that the euphoria on the advent of
the 21st century is past, we can very well say the same thing on the 21st
century vis-à-vis the 20th century.

Consumerism surely gave a boost to the
aforesaid euphoria, but beneath it laid man's indefatigable optimism for the

Dormir tranquille

...

Nous, nous vivons dans
l'éternité.

Et je te dis (c'est
l'état de conscience normal, naturel), il n'a pas fallu une minute la nuit
dernière : il a fallu une seconde, brrf ! fini. Et alors je suis entrée dans
une sorte de joie tranquille, comme cela, qui a duré trois heures sans
interruption. Après, on a recommencé à travailler.

Mais avant de dormir,
tu fais ça : tu imagines (tu

Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram : The Occultist

 The Mother's high inner realisation and spiritual radiance
attract many seekers. In 1906 a small group was formed under her guidance,
which was named Idea. They met regularly on Wednesday evenings at
her house, first 1 rue Lemercier, later in rue des Levis and after 1910 in rue
tal de Grace. Apart from spiritual topics they also discussed occult
experiences. The Mother herself had many

Max Théon : Mother's Teacher of Occultism

Théon (Louis-Maximilian Bimstein) was an enigmatic occultist
whose evolutionary and occult teachings were indirectly taken up by Sri
Aurobindo, and may have also had some influence on the metaphysics of H.P.
Blavatsky.
A Polish Jew, he travelled to London, France, Egypt, and finally Algeria,
founding several esoteric groups along the way. He was known under several
names, but we can refer

Lord Ganesha and the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Ganesha is the Power that removes obstacles by the
force of Knowledge.



                                                     *   *  *  



Ganesha
(among other things) is the Devata of spiritual Knowledge.



                   -   Sri Aurobindo




(On
Yoga 2, Letters on Yoga, Tome 1, pp. 377-378)



                                                    *   *  *  

Le vrai Moi

Le vrai Moi ne se trouve nulle part à la surface, mais
profondément au-dedans et en haut. Au-dedans, se trouve l'âme, qui soutient le
mental intérieur, le vital intérieur et le physique intérieur, et ceux-ci ont
une capacité d'extension universelle qui peut apporter ce dont nous avons
besoin maintenant : un contact direct avec la vérité de nous-mêmes et des
choses, un goût de la béatitude

Auroville : A link between the old way of being and the new

September 4, 1971What do you have?... You don't have anything?... Some people came to see you? Satprem: No, aside from one or two exceptions, I refuse to see anybody. I don't know, but I've found that now it is better for me to remain quiet.Because I was told about someone who came to see you. Satprem: The only person I've seen is E.Oh, he's a nice man! Satprem: But otherwise I refuse to see

The State of the Nation : A Questionnaire Answered by the Mother

THE STATE OF THE NATION

The Mother answers

(A questionnaire from The Illustrated Weekly of India, Republic
Day issue of 1964 - original English)





1. If you were asked to sum up, just in one sentence, your vision of
India, what would be your answer?

India's true destiny is to be the Guru of the world.

2. Similarly, if you were asked

The Mother : Sublime Guide by Prof. Manoj Das

THE genius who
not only propounded colossal ideas but also put them into practice, the
visionary who dared to launch the process of transfiguring the vision into
gross reality, is widely known as the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram though, in
truth, Sri Aurobindo Ashram is of the Mother, as is the Auroville, the `city of
dawn' which she designed for a new community of seekers from all over the

"Mother's Agenda"

"The conditions in which men live on earth are the
result of their state of   consciousness. Wanting to change the
conditions without changing the consciousness is a vain chimera."    
                                                                                                                         - The Mother  

Encounter with an Asuric Being

May 15, 1962

(During the night of April 3, Mother had encountered an asuric being
who had managed to assume Sri Aurobindo's appearance, as well as a group of
people wanting to found a Nietzschean-type religion. Following this encounter,
a heart attack had gravely endangered Mother's life. But this was not the first
such meeting.)



I had said [on April 3] I would find the date of my first

The Aurovilian Must Not Be A Slave To His Desires

(I do not know who
told you that ‒ but there is a
misunderstanding somewhere because to hand over the management of Auroville to
any country or any group however big it may be is an absolute
impossibility. Blessings, The Mother)





We should teach them to free themselves from the idea of
personal possession.... You see, everything belongs to the Divine, and the
Divine gives you not

Jitendra Sharma : Correspondence with the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Mother's Agenda : tape recordings made by Satprem, Part II (1966-1973)

1966


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3/08/6639:48
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31/08/6635:20
3/09/6604:27
7/09/6605:28

Mother's Agenda : tape recordings made by Satprem, Part I (1958-1965)

The Mother

"Agenda"

tape recordings made by Satprem






1958


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6/10/5801:49
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4/11/5831:21
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1959


10/03/5906:48
11/03/5901:15









1960


16/05/6012:29
23/05/6002:05
7/06/6022:34
21/06/6003:13
10/08/6015

Satprem and Mother's Agenda

SATPREM
(1923 – 2007)







    A sailor and a Breton, though born in Paris in 1923. A member of the French Resistance, Satprem was arrested by the Gestapo when he was twenty and spent a year and a half in concentration camps. Devastated, he journeyed first to Upper Egypt, then to India, where he served in the French colonial government of Pondicherry. There he discovered Sri

Sri Aurobindo: Eternity Greets A God

Courtesy: Illustrated, January 6, 1951, pp.
27-29.

Sri Aurobindo's Birthday and India's Independence Day

The Kalki Avatars-Napoleon Bonaparte

















Sri Aurobindo was known in his ashram as the rebirth of Napoleon. Napoleon’s birthday was also August 15th.... In his previous births, it was believed he was Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Krishna and many other persons too. Someone asked Sri Aurobindo whether he had been Shakespeare as well, but could not elicit an answer.

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Politics

Question: Sweet
Mother, what should be the attitude of a true politician?

Ans.:  But it's just the
attitude of a true politician which I have given here. It's
the ideal
politician, my child. One can't make a better one. It is the circumstances, he
says that himself: "a greater force than mine..." it's the way the
world is organised; he started with the best intentions, he tried his very
best,

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Planchette, Automatic Writing

Sri
Aurobindo's younger brother, Barindra, was like an orbiting planet round the
Sun that was the elder brother… During his
stay at Baroda, Barindra who had been reading about the then widely popular
phenomenon of "Spiritualism" started experimenting with planchette
writing, table tapping and mediumistic communication. Sri Aurobindo sometimes
joined the séances, partly out of amusement and

The Longest Sentence in English Poetry is in Sri Aurobindo's "Savitri"

The
longest sentence in English poetry—143 words and, if a compound is counted as
two, 144—is in Savitri, Book IV, Conto III,
P.426.



     
We must understand, of course, that true sentence-length does not really depend
on putting a full-stop as late as possible and substituting commas and
semi-colons and colons for it wherever we can. The true length is organic. The
construction is such

Sri Aurobindo on Sri Ramana Maharshi

Mrs. K. went to see Maharshi and was seen driving mosquitoes at
the time of meditation. She complained to him about mosquito bites. The
Maharshi told her that if she couldn't bear mosquito bites she couldn't do
yoga. Mrs. K. could not understand the significance of the statement. She
wanted spirituality without mosquitoes!

There are reports that those who stay there permanently are not
all

Rabindranath Tagore on Sri Aurobindo

(In a comparative study
of Tagore & Sri Aurobindo, 'The
Rainbow Bridge' (2007), Goutam Ghosal writes: "Tagore met Sri
Aurobindo twice, very humbly, recognizing in him the light unerringly."

Tagore wrote of his significant experience in 1928 (below), and even wrote an
entire poem, ‘Salutation’, dedicated to Sri Aurobindo.)

For a long time I had
a strong desire to meet Aurobindo Ghosh, It

Sri Aurobindo and Gods

The Mother had a
small book by her table. She opened the book at random and said, “Here, read
this.” The sentence was Sri Aurobindo telling someone in a letter, “Shiva
and I are one.”


In her 1961 Mother's Agenda, the
Mother remembered 1926 as the year Shiva refused to incarnate until the
Supramental Yoga was complete. Krishna however 'consented' to be FIXED in Sri
Aurobindo.



Mother’s

Adolf Hitler, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Mother's Agenda, Vol. 6January 12,
1965

(Regarding an old “Playground
Talk” of March 8, 1951, in which Mother spoke of the being that possessed and
“guided” Hitler: “Hitler was in contact with a being whom he considered to be
the Supreme: that being would come and give him advice and tell him all that he
had to do. Hitler would withdraw into solitude and wait long enough to come

29 February 1956 : The Supramental Manifestation in Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Mother has the concrete experience of the
descent of the Supramental Consciousness on Earth on February 29,1956.



The Golden Day

‘The lights had been turned off at the
Playground after the reading of some passages from The Synthesis of Yoga and
the children's questions. They all sat on the ground in a semicircle around
her. One heard the sea in the distance, and the

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Religion and Yoga

Aju Mukhopadhyay's "Insect’s Nest and Other Poems" : Book Review by Prof. Santanu Banerjee

Aju Mukhopadhyay is a renowned bi-lingual poet and writer who has authored a dozen books in Bangla and almost equal number of volumes in English. Currently he lives in Pondicherry, a place that has been hallowed by the spiritual presence of one of the most illustrious sons of Bengal-Sri Aurobindo.Mukhopadhyay’s latest book of verse entitled Insect’s Nest and Other Poems is neatly

Ganga, Shiva and the Earth by Lori Tompkins

How Ganga comes to Earth




'Ganga is said to have descended from heaven and fallen onto Shiva's head, whence from his matted locks the Great God released her in a gentle flow upon the Earth. It is said that the Earth was spared the full impact of her power by this graceful act of Shiva, and that, had it not been so, the planet could not have tolerated the descent of Ganga in her full form.'

Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga Practice

 


We offer this page to all sadhaks who are in need of simple and
effective tools to put their sadhana on the integral foundation of concrete and
psychological methods of the Integral Yoga.

Sri Aurobindo writes:

What I meant by some concrete method was things like repetition
of a mantra, pranayama, asana, etc. What I mean by subtle methods is
psychological, non-mechanical processes e.g.

"The Golden Chain": A Talk by Nolini Kanta Gupta

(This  talk was  addressed  to the students of  “Sri Aurobindo



International Centre of Education”, Pondicherry.)






     You have been here for many years, for
many, many years. From childhood you are here, most of you, perhaps all of you.
Some of you are going out, some are likely to stay, some are still undecided.
If you are asked, "

Sri Aurobindo’s letter to Mahatma Gandhi

Not many people are aware of the fact Mahatma
Gandhi had visited Pondicherry on 17 February 1934. Ever since his return to
India from South Africa in 1915, he was desirous to meet Sri Aurobindo. For the
purpose of arranging a meeting with Sri Aurobindo, the Mahatma had written to
Govindbhai Patel, a follower of Sri Aurobindo who was initially associated with
him. But when the permission

Sri Aurobindo on the Law of Balance

"In this Day the Straight Path is made manifest, the Balance of divine justice is set and the light of the sun of His bounty is resplendent "...http://bahaiasheboro.blogspot.com/2010/05/in-this-day-straight-path-is-made.html




[Yusufali 55:7] And the Firmament has He raised high, and He has set up the Balance (of Justice)-The Quran[Yusufali 55:9] So establish weight with justice and fall not

Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga, Disciples and the Mother

     If you leave it to the
Mother entirely, then what the Mother would want you to do is to go on with the
work as best you can without allowing yourself to be disturbed or troubled by
these things which you enumerate in your letters, without insisting on your own
ideas or vital feelings. That is indeed the rule that all ought to follow, to
do their work here as the Mother's work, not

Spirit of Storm

Courtesy: "The Heritage " Magazine, June 1985, pp. 80-81.

Rebirth: Explanations by the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Courtesy: Growing up with the Mother by Tara Jauhar, pp. 196-201, Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Delhi Branch Trust, New Delhi, 1999.

Speech of Mrs. Indira Gandhi at Sri Aurobindo Ashram

"The Spirit of Storm" painted by Promode Kumar Chatterjee

Promod Kumar Chatterjee-a painter and a seeker






Promod Kumar Chattopadhyay (1885-1979) was an interesting personality who travelled through many vicissitudes in his life. He was a traveler and travelled extensively all over India, Nepal and Tibet for pilgrimage. But it was not merely for the purpose of pilgrimage –though its spiritual significance was not absent in his

Darshan of the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

March 7,197O
He sat, it seemed, for eons on the porch outside her room. He
had been waiting already for years, then months, then those
days since he was told he could go up to her on his birthday,
sitting in his solid little block of a Peace Corps house, trying to
concentrate on a name, a tiny face glimpsed above a railing;
eyes that blinked at the brightness of the Bay of Bengal then
swept

Bilkees Latif reminisces Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Courtesy: "The Fragrance of Forgotten Years" by Bilkees Latif, pp. 159-165, Rupa & Co.,

New Delhi, 2009.

An Aurovillian: Energy but it is not my energy...

Energy but it is not my energy...





                                    Roy in the seventies     
 Energy…It is not my energy...


When I came to Auroville, it was like an extension of that existence I already was living.

"Here is your ticket for Sunday."

"But I can't leave on Sunday, I don't have a visa!"

On Friday I go to the Indian Consulate. The Indians there hate India, they really

Poet Harindranath Chattopadhyaya and Shelley

Courtesy : "The Illustrated Weekly of India", dated December 1, 1985

"God, Religion and Rites" by Aju Mukhopadhyay

The whole of India is replete with stories of Rishis, Munis and Sadhus from ancient time who realized God, established relationship with God and inspired people to live a pious and righteous life. There were deviations as in every field of life but usually spiritualism is an accepted fact of Indian life which gradually got mixed up with various other modern motives and ways of living;

"The World of Sri Aurobindo’s Creative Literature" Book Review by Prof. Vasudeva T. Reddy

                                                  Aju Mukopadhyay’s latest work The World of Sri Aurobindo’s Creative Literature, recently published by AuthorsPress, N. Delhi in 2013, is yet another contribution to the ever increasing world of appreciative evaluation of Aurobindo literature. The writer has done tremendous work before undertaking the writing on the creative literature of Sri

English poetry is receiving lesser attention these days: Aju Mukhopadhyay

Aju Mukhopadhyay, a
bilingual poet, author and critic, writes fictions and essays too. He has
authored 30 books and received several poetry awards from India and USA,
besides other honours. He is a regular contributor to various magazines and
e-zines in India and abroad. He is a member of the Research Board of Advisors
of the American Biographical Institute, registered in the Who's Who of

The Psychic Being Is The Supramental Being

Then I said to myself (possibly it is always so, I do not know, but here I noticed it very clearly), I said to myself, "But it is the psychic being, it is that which will materialise itself and become the supramental being!"-THE MOTHER



July 1, 1970

(Satprem reads out the conversation of June 27 - "a very slight shift of consciousness" - which Mother thought could be used

Did Sri Aurobindo & The Mother Foresee This Time? by BHAGA

by   BhagaDid Sri Aurobindo and the Mother foresee such a special period as the one we find ourselves in presently?

In Sri Aurobindo’s great poem, ‘Savitri’,  there is a passage when Ashwapathy, the King in ancient India who will become the father of the feminine divine Incarnation that will be Savitri, tells how his consciousness, in a moment of extraordinary vision, saw the far future of

Devotion, Yes… Religion, No. by BHAGA

by Bhaga in PRACTICE OF CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION / INTEGRAL YOGA, SRI AUROBINDO & THE MOTHER, THE NEW EVOLUTIVE STEP

Sri Aurobindo is one of the most respected freedom fighters from Bengal and also a poet, philosopher, and yogi.My Facebook Page, since a few weeks, keeps showing almost every day more photos of Sri Aurobindo or the Mother, diligently posted there by well-meaning devotees, who, as

Aju Mukhopadhyay's "The World of Sri Aurobindo's Creative Literature"

       

















The World of Sri Aurobindo's Creative Literature



Price :

$25.75


ISBN # :

9788172736965


Author :

Aju Mukhopadhyay


pages:

162


Edition :

Hardcover


Volumes :

1


Publisher :

Author Press


Published :

2012







In this volume an attempt has been made by Aju
Mukhopadhyay, a well known writer on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother besides other
works, to

Baba Ramdev visits Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who was in Puducherry on a private visit, said that there was a need to bring divinity to politics to effect big changes.

Talking to reporters after having a “darshan” at Aurobindo Ashram on Tuesday morning, he said people needed at least 100 MPs with divinity in the parliament to bring about changes in politics, eradicate corruption and unearth black money. He

Deepak Chopra on "States of Consciousness"

   “In India, one
of the greatest seers of the twentieth century, Sri Aurobindo, said that because we are in a very early stage of human evolution, most of us experience only the first three states of consciousness: sleeping, dreaming, and wakefulness. Eventually we will recognize and understand the more expanded states of consciousness, and when we do, such concepts as synchronicity,

"The Mother's Evolutionary Vision" by Peter Heehs

Courtesy: "Enlighten Next" Magazine, Issue 47, 2011




Aurobindo admirer

FEBRUARY 24TH, 2013

Rajib Roy met American historian Peter Heehs during his visit to Shillong

 WHILE GRADUATING in a college in Philadelphia, the idea of Vedanta and general spiritual thinking started making sense to American historian Peter Heehs. He was in Shillong for a seminar – Interrelation between

Hindi Translation of Barindra Kumar Ghose’s “The Tale of My Exile”

Are we facing an evolutionary crisis? by MANOJ DAS

Are we going to let technology shape our future? Photo: K.K. Mustafah

It seems that the human race is beginning to lose its intellectual and emotional abilities.


Albert Einstein, in Out of My Later Years, warned us not to trust our intellect because it had no conscience though it had muscles. Those familiar with this warning will not be surprised by the thesis put forth by Dr. Gerald

Hindi Book on Sri Aurobindo

Growth in Consciousness and Knowledge

As knowledge grows Light flames up from within:
It is a shining warrior in the mind,
An eagle of dreams in the divining heart,
An armour in the fight, a bow of God. – ‘Savitri’

As one grows in consciousness and the Knowledge of the inner being grows more and more, the Light of the soul flames up illumining all within and without. It presents itself in the mind as a luminous power spotting

“The Kabbalah, the Philosophie Cosmique, and the Integral Yoga: A Study in Cross-Cultural Influence” by Peter Heehs

Peter Heehs is an independent scholar based in India. He
has written or edited nine books and published more than fifty articles. 
2011. “The Kabbalah, the Philosophie Cosmique, and the Integral
Yoga: A Study in Cross-Cultural Influence”. Aries 11:2
(September): 219-247 (Pdf file available here :http://peterheehs.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ARIES_011_02_04Heehs.pdf).

Some of these

Swami Vivekananda’s connection to Puducherry - by KAVITA KISHORE

An artist giving final touches to the commissioned carving of Swami Vivekananda, which the Ramakrishna Seva Sangam plans to install, to celebrate his 150th birth anniversary.


With the 150th birth anniversary of the philosopher providing a fitting backdrop, Kavita Kishore explores the threads that link him to Puducherry


In a small stall off the beach, a potter is giving finishing touches to

Mother's Advice to Ashramites